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- Championing Older Adults for Leadership in Environmental Sustainability and Climate Empowerment
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- Gloria Gutman Gerontology Research Centre
- Inclusive Environments Lab
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- Precision Mental Health Lab
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- A Comprehensive Approach to Enhance Older Adults’ Preparedness for Extreme Heat
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Nosaiba Fayyaz
Supervisor: Mahmood
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Research Areas: Housing; homelessness; older adults; and aging in the right place.
Shawna Hopper
Supervisor: Cosco
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Research Areas: Social isolation; mental health; cognition; longitudinal analyses.
Zhan Shi
Supervisor: Chaudhury
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Research Areas: Dementia-Friendly Communities; Aging and Cognitive Health; Human-Centered Design for Aging Populations.
Longyu Sui
Supervisor: Wister
Research Areas: Older adult volunteering; digital inclusion; social connectedness; and healthy aging.
Becky White
Supervisor: Fang
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Research Areas: Healthy lifestyles and wellness.
Jiachi Zhang
Supervisor: Wister
Research Areas: Healthy aging; multimorbidity; resilience and aging; quality of life; older adults.
Letitia Zhu
Supervisors: Mahmood
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Research Areas: Art-based methods; community-engaged research; and technology with a focus on older adults with disabilities.
MA Students
Ancilla Akomeah
Supervisor: Wister
Research Areas: Elder abuse and neglect ; occurrences; risk factors; effects and preventive strategies.
Jennifer Coleman
Supervisor: Mitchell
Research Areas: Social, economic, and psychosocial affects of being apart of the sandwich generation.
Alex Dong
Supervisor: Chaudhury
Research Areas: Alzheimer's and dementia; palliative care.
Mayana Fontenele
Supervisor: Cosco
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Research Areas: Ageism in media narratives; digital inclusion of older adults; active aging; and community participation.
Kira Gawenus
Supervisor: Cosco
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Research Areas: Indigenous futurity and well-being; environmental gerontology; trauma, memory, and resilience across place; climate displacement; cultural continuity; land-based healing and environmental grief; urban–rural ecologies of aging.
Olabisi Lawal
Supervisor: Wister
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Research Areas: Resilience and aging; multimorbidity; frailty; disability; and functional impairment among older adults.
Aryana Mohammed
Supervisor: Pauly
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Research Areas: Using the arts to improve mental health and wellbeing among the elderly; narrative gerontology; health promotion and social prescribing; ethnocultural long-term care homes and its influence on community building
Jessica Pike
Supervisor: Pauly
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Research Areas: Social connection; social cognition; well-being; and promoting self-efficacy.
Jean Ramirez Echavarria
Supervisor: Mahmood
Research Areas: The built environment and its impact on identity, LGBTQIA2S+ older adults, age-friendly communities and socio-spatial disruption.
Dena Sananin
Supervisor: Cosco
Research Areas: Mental health; well-being and aging; resiliency in families experiencing dementia.
Hope Stenhouse
Supervisor: Fang
Research Areas: Autonomy versus safety in institutional care settings.
Elise Stone
Supervisor: Fang
Research Areas: Green space; gardening; and climate change.
Cristal Villamor
Supervisor: Mitchell
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Research Areas: Late-life immigration’s impact on older adults’ well-being; health promotion strategies for culturally diverse older adults; intergenerational relationships.
Myia Wilhelm
Supervisor: Chaudhury
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Research Areas: Dementia villages; dementia-friendly communities; environmental gerontology; the impact of the built environment on the quality of life of people living with dementia.